It was a one hour flight but the other side of the world. We are naïve travellers still. We had arrived in Port Moresby from the mountain top air field of Goroka thinking we had allowed more time than needed even considering Air Nuigini's reputation for delayed flights. We smiled our beaming best smile at the check in desk handing over our paper work confidently. We were certain our bags were under weight there could be no problem. Australia here we come....

Thank you for so many questions. I counted 15, that is an awful lot to answer so I will do my best and Charlie will try to answer some of them in more detail later. What is the wild life and plant life like in Papua New Guinea? This is a great question. Nearly all the rare and exotic animals and plants are far away from where I live. They are in the forest in the mountains by Indonesia on the western border of the country or near the Sepik River where the S...

Charlie was really looking forward to Easter in Kundiawa. He would get 4 days holiday to rest and have fun in. Special holidays usually mean special meals as well so he thought it would be a good idea to go to the market and see what he could buy for a special Easter Sunday meal. The market was fairly busy and different from markets in England. First of all he checked his money to see if he had enough small coins and notes because he knew people in the ma...

Lunchtime in a town primary school. Children are a wonderful way to take the temperature of a place. I had a meeting with the senior staff booked for 2 o'clock so I decided I would arrive early with the camera and see what the lunch break was like. One can often learn about a school more quickly when it is in informal mode. The school is down a deep descent off the highway. As one approaches it one gets a birds eye view and realizes how big it is for a pri...

Heather and I had thought that we would try to settle to a pattern of writing a blog a week alternating between a Charlie blog for the schools and children and a more adult focused one. However with an attack of malaria having happened this week we thought that perhaps it is a good idea to put in an extra one to reassure anyone who may have been concerned. It also gives us a chance to add in one or two extra bits of colour which are starting to paint a pictur...